When faced with multiple food options and ultimately choosing one, the factors of that decision-making process may be more physiological than previously assumed. A group of scientists led by ...

Chronic alcohol consumption profoundly alters gene expression in key brain regions involved in reward, impulse control, and ...

On a recent episode of Extreme Weight Loss, the star was a young woman who was addicted to high-fat junk foods. To motivate her to change her diet, trainer Chris Powell volunteered to eat what the ...

BATON ROUGE – When faced with multiple food options and ultimately choosing one, the factors of that decision-making process may be more physiological than previously assumed. A group of scientists ...

New research on the "Reward Positivity" brain signal distinguishes between rewards and goals, offering a new way to measure ...

I was a third-year medical student at Northwestern on my ICU rotation the first time I saw a dopamine drip. The patient was pale and motionless, his blood pressure dropping by the minute despite large ...

Positive thinking may boost the body’s defenses against disease. Increasing activity in a brain region that controls motivation and expectation, specifically the brain’s reward system, is linked with ...